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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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David Cottrell; Joseph Cecere

future.Bibliography:Arquette, Cecile M. Ph.D, “ A University- Public School Key- Pal Partnership,” T.H.E. Journal, December2004, page 10.De Vise, Daniel, “Enrollment in Advanced Courses Surging at High Schools”, Washington Post, December11, 2004. (www.washingtonpost.com)Krumrie, Matt, “Take College Classes Now,” Nextstepmagazine, September, 2004, page 12(www.nextstepmagazine.com)Wallis, Claudia; “How Smart is AP,” Time Magazine, page 54, November 8, 2004JOSEPH J. CECERE, Ph.D., CPC, is an Associate Professor and chairman of the Structural Designand Construction Engineering Technology program in the School of Science and Engineering Technologyat Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg.DAVID S. COTTRELL is an Assistant Professor of Engineering in the School of

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Edward Jackson; Mani Mina

success.ConclusionWe have constructed a first-year electrical engineering course which covers material similar tothat of most traditional courses, but is augmented by an emphasis on understanding one’s ownlearning methods. Students are encouraged to approach problem solving with an open mind,rather than trying to apply a rigid process. The class experience is enhanced by the presence ofundergraduate mentors who provide guidance and intellectual diversity that would otherwise belacking. The overall result is that students develop independent learning skills which will allowthem to continue to adapt to changing technology throughout their careers.That students report high rates of satisfaction and a desire to become involved in the course asmentors is a strong

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Christine Kelly

validations. Journal ofValidation Technology. 1(4):56-59U.S. FDA. 1991. Biotechnology Inspection Guide Reference Materials and TrainingAids. Available at the URL http://www.fda.gov/ora/inspect_ref/igs/biotech.html.Waterland, Nellie; Shapiro, Matthew; Douty, Charles; Grice-DuBose, ArDen; McKinley,Sophia; Thrasher, Gerri; and Ulmer, Marissa. Change Control: Seven Pharmaceuticalmanufacturers Share Their Experiences. Available at the URLhttp://www.ivthome.com/free/change%20control.htm. Page 10.157.2 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American

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Developments in Chem Engineering Education Poster Session

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Karyn Biasca

. Linric, 2001), I believe that the physicalunderstanding of the air/water vapor system imparted by learning to read the chart is a valuablepart of a process engineer’s toolbox.Tutorial DevelopmentThe development of the tutorial began during the summer of 2003. The UW-Stevens PointInformation Technology (IT) group had an interest in working with faculty to develop “learning Page 10.468.1objects”, which can be defined as small, reusable “chunks” of course content (Wiley, 2000). I Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for

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Integrating H&SS in Engineering II

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Radha Balamuralikrishna; Kurt Rosentrater

Session 2661 Essential Highlights of the History of Fluid Mechanics K. A. Rosentrater USDA, ARS, NGIRL, 2923 Medary Ave., Brookings, SD, 57006, USA Phone: (605) 693-3241; Fax: (605) 693-5240; Email: krosentr@ngirl.ars.usda.gov R. Balamuralikrishna Department of Technology, Northern Illinois University, 206 Still Hall, DeKalb, IL, 60015, USA Phone: (815) 753-4155; Fax: (815) 753-3702; Email: bala@ceet.niu.eduABSTRACTTo achieve accreditation, engineering and technology programs throughout the United States mustmeet guidelines

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New Trends in Graduate Education

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Wayne Whiteman

Session 3155 How Long Does it Take to Earn a Ph.D. in Engineering: A Case Study Wayne E. Whiteman, Ph.D., P.E. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0405AbstractA case study is conducted of the length of time it takes to earn a Ph.D. in engineering. Fourhundred twenty-one individuals who earned their Ph.D. from the Woodruff School ofMechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia are studied.This case

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Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

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Youssef Shatilla; Adnan Zahed

of ABET reviewers and the requirementsof the strategic planning of the Faculty of Engineering. ECPDO mission is to build the mosteffective partnership between the industry and the King Abdulaziz University Faculty ofEngineering. ECPDO will help to develop innovative programs that provide students withhands-on, real world experience in industry, and provides industry with excellentopportunities to advance research, leverage the university’s state-of-the-art technology andrecruit the engineering talent of the future. ECPDO primary objectives are summarizedherein.For juniors and staff: 1. Prepare the engineering students to become young professionals. 2. Prepare engineers sensitive to the environment and the society needs. 3. Focus on

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John Kaplan; Kathleen Kaplan

access for the traditional universities.This paper will introduce H.R. 4283, including background on the HEA, and discuss theproposed policies that adversely affect traditional universities. This information is not addressedby many in academia, including the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology(ABET) [1]. ABET has not taken a stand on this issue, yet, every educator, university, andstudent should be knowledgeable about this bill; it affects all of us.Background on the Higher Education Act of 1965The Higher Education Act (HEA) became law on November 8, 1965, when it was signed byPresident Lyndon Johnson, Public Law 89-329. Its goal was to strengthen “the educationalresources of our colleges and universities and to provide financial

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Engineering Education Research and Assessment I

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Koren Aragaki; Daniel M. Ferguson; Margaret Huyck

have been: continued development of communication andmultidisciplinary teamwork skills1; multidisciplinary exchange to create a marketableproduct/service1; encompassing interpersonal relationships, crisis management, and objectivitywhile developing written, oral, and presentation communication skills2; developing timemanagement awareness, commitment to a company, and develop job hunting skills3; solving areal-life engineering problem in a team environment4; and teaching students project proposing,planning, and control4. ®The Interprofessionala Projects (IPRO ) Program at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) hasincorporated these common goals into a project-based learning experience

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Wider Contexts of Ethics for Engineers

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D'Arcy Randall; Hillary Hart

-Northwestern-Texas-Harvard/MITthat develops bioengineering educational technologies. The Biomedical Engineering Departmentat UT had already cast some of its ethics materials in the Challenge framework, which stressesinteractive, group-oriented learning and student self-assessment. The six stages in the Challengecycle are represented in Figure 1. Page 10.1470.2Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright©2005, American Society for Engineering EducationFigure 1. Stages of learning in ethics modules, based on Challenge-Based Instruction(Bransford, 2000). Developed by the Faculty Innovation

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Jennifer Karlin

exposing theparticipants to many options in engineering. A hallmark of the program is its interactivenature, allowing the participants to see how math and science can be used to make theworld a better place.IntroductionFemales are traditionally underrepresented in the science and engineering fields, and theirloss to the workforce can negatively affect the quality of the future domestic science,technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce1. All students progressthrough an educational pipeline, and the female STEM pipeline experiences a number ofleaks during which students lose interest in science and engineering. These leaks canoccur anywhere from elementary school through the graduate level and can be due to anumber of different

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Benson Tongue

dents in Engineering Through Freshman Courses, Proceedings, 2002 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Montr´eal, Qu´ebec. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright c 2005, American Society for Engineering Education” [3] Kigley, K.A. and Marianno, C.M., Making Engineering Education Fun, Journal of Engineering Education, pp. 107, 2001.Biographical information:Benson Tongue is a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California,Berkeley. He received his MS from Stanford and BSE, MA, and PhD from Princeton. Hetaught from 1983-1988 at the Georgia Institute of Technology and has been at Berkeley since1988

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Nancy Study

introduces an element of fun into a seriousproject that the students seemed to enjoy. The subjects in this study also had shown lower thanaverage visualization abilities [4] and it was anticipated that the haptic nature of this assignment,physically manipulating and creating a virtual model of a familiar object, would serve theancillary purpose of improving their visualization skills because previous research has indicatedthat a majority of engineering and technology students have high haptic tendencies [3].The Assignment A LEGO backhoe (Figure 1) was chosen for the assignment because the number of partsand the complexity of the overall model were appropriate for the class. Parts were sorted by theinstructor and three or four parts

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Paolo Tamayo; David Florida; Ramakrishna Gottipati; Janos Grantner

Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”microcontroller that are covered in the lab. ECE 595 students are also assigned a midterm project(the development of a LCD interface). All students are required to purchase their ownMicrocontroller EVB, a student license of the ICC12 IDE software, and a Parts Kit for the labsand projects. In the first section of the paper, we will summarize the work done in the class. Thesecond section will focus on the laboratory experiments and the projects in detail. The thirdsection will outline a few planned future developments of the course.1. Introduction Microcontrollers are a result of the evolution in microprocessor architectures andmanufacturing technologies which produce smaller

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Susan Wills; Mihaly Lenart; Peter Tarjan

“E-team” projects proposed by studentteams. “E” stands for Entrepreneurship or Excellence.Although we planned to involve engineering students from the entire College of Engineering andfrom the Business School, the overwhelming majority of the approximately 100 participants todate have come from Biomedical Engineering. Participation by others has been hindered bysome interdepartmental problems of controls and bureaucratic rules. Perhaps these difficultiesare generic and arise from the engineering tradition of professional isolation by specialization.Entrepreneurial product development needs teamwork involving technical specialists as well asthose skilled in business. The goal was to introduce the participants in many facets of entrepre

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New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering II

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Cyrus Hagigat

Session 3662 Using Commercially Available Finite Element Software for Fatigue Analysis Cyrus K. Hagigat Engineering Technology Department College of Engineering The University of Toledo Toledo, Ohio 43606I: IntroductionFatigue analysis is a branch of the science of fracture mechanics. It is widely known that a metalsubjected to a repetitive fluctuating load will eventually fail at a load much lower than thatrequired to cause

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Uwakweh Benjamin; Richard Miller; Bryan Dansberry; Kettil Cedercreutz; Cheryl Cates

diverse set of academic fields and educational levels. The Grantwas filed by Cheryl Cates as PI and Kettil Cedercreutz as co-PI in a joint effort with the Accreditation Council for Cooperative Education. Thethree year pilot program will involve the Departments of Architecture (Prof. Anton Harfmann, College of Design, Art, Architecture and Planning), Civil Engineering (Prof. Richard Miller, College of Engineering), Construction Management (Prof. Benjamin Uwakweh, College of AppliedScience) and the College of Business (Prof. Marianne Lewis, College of Business). Project Liaisons from the Accreditation Council forCooperative Education (ACCE) include Professional Practice Executive Director Tom Akins from the Georgia Institute of Technology and

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K-12 Poster Session

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Betsy Aller; Edmund Tsang; Andrew Kline

provide instructional devices andequipment, experiments, and training for use in K-12 classrooms to enhance Science,Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education. Engineering and educationstudents, university faculty, and practicing K-12 teachers work together to design, build, analyze,and test age-appropriate classroom materials, develop and refine training for practicing and pre-service teachers, and provide opportunities for engineering and education students to see theimpact of their work in the larger community beyond the campus boundaries.This paper describes the ongoing EDCSL activities related to several of the student-engineeredprojects from CEAS senior capstone design courses and a freshman introductory engineeringcourse

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Design Education

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Michael Pastirik; Michael Robertson; William Singhose; Joshua Vaughan; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

Involving High Schools Students in a University-Level Mechanical Engineering Design Competition Michael Robertson1, Joshua Vaughan1, William Singhose1, Michael Pastirik2, Marion Usselman3, Donna Llewellyn4 1 George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering 2 Cedar Grove High School, DeKalb County School System 3 Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics and Computing 4 Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning Georgia Institute of Technology

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Assessment of Graphics Programs

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Julie Petlick; Alice Scales; Aaron Clark

Trends and Issues for Engineering/Technical Graphics Education: A Follow-up Survey Aaron C. Clark, Alice Y. Scales and Julie H. Petlick Department of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-7801ABSTRACT –During the 1998-1999 academic year, a survey was conducted to look at current trends andissues in the profession of graphics education (Clark & Scales, 1999). The survey solicitedinformation from the membership of the Engineering Design Graphics Division of AmericanSociety for Engineering Education related to the field. This survey examined their view offuture growth areas, existing

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Issues of Building Diversity

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Isadore Davis; Eugene DeLoatch; Sherra Kerns; Carla Purdy; Lueny Morell

implications for U.S. industries, education and government agencies. Why? Becausethese groups have long been under-represented in science, technology, engineering andmathematics (STEM). Additionally, the U.S. Bureau of Labor 2000 Census predicts thatengineering jobs will increase from the current level of 1.5 million to 1.75 million and ComputerScience and Engineering jobs will increase from 1.5 million to 3.0 million by 2008. These jobgrowth projections represent tremendous challenges for our K-12 and higher educationalsystems, as well as for industry and government. Supply and demand must match up.Currently, there is a lack of a comprehensive plan and focused national strategy to address thetrend of unfilled future STEM positions. Thus, the members

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Sustainability Issues

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Jianpeng Zhou

environmentalengineering problems. CE 487 focused on calculation and practical engineering design of majorunits of a typical water treatment process. Students in CE 487 were expected to have alreadytaken CE 380, and commanded the basic knowledge of water treatment. However, students in CE487 likely had not got the exposure and understanding on what considerations constituteappropriate design of a water treatment facility. CE 592 emphasized on contemporary issues ofwater quality and advanced water treatment processes, addressed rationales, fundamentals, andadvanced technologies to remove special contaminates in water. The graduate students in CE 592were expected to have already learned the principles of water treatment, and were able toevaluate and assess

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Robert Reese

& Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering EducationTable 1 Lecture/Lab Topics in X86-based/PIC18F242 Based CoursesCourse X86-based PIC18F242Lecture Assembly language topics focused on PIC18Fxx2 instruction set inTopics 16-bit subset. Considerable time spent C language context; 8-bit (char) vs on DOS software interrupts and utility 16-bit (int) data type operations, functions for text IO because of the signed vs. unsigned operations, lab environment. Hardware topics pointer (*char, *int) operations. included memory technologies, simple Hardware

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Andrew Gerhart

Session 1793K-12 Summer Engineering Outreach Programs – Curriculum Comparisons Between Ages, Minorities, and Genders. Andrew L. Gerhart Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, MI 48075AbstractEnsuring that the level of the material presented/used for a K-12 program is not too easy or tooadvanced can be a challenge to the instructor. Also ensuring that the material will be of interestto a variety of students (i.e., minorities, females, etc.) can be a challenge. LawrenceTechnological University has two outreach programs each summer. One program, called

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Robert Scoff

common three phase circuits used in the UnitedStates today. These are by no means the only three phase circuits in use. It is my desire thatthese templates will be picked up by colleges and universities around the country so that studentscan gain a basic understanding of power circuits. Some of them might even become electricalpower engineers.Submitted by:Robert J. Scoff, P.E.The University of Memphis203 Technology BuildingMemphis, TN 38152-3210Office Phone 901-678-3303Cell Phone 901-573-3303e-mail rscoff@memphis.edu Page 10.204.6 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anna Lambert; Aaron Robinson; Charles Camp; Jeff Marchetta; Laura Lackey; Stephanie Ivey

preference of learning style in one of the four Kolb Areas. Can Kolb’s learning stylecategories be useful as predictors for at-risk students? Do individualized follow-up methodsprovide additional information regarding specific reasons for students who make the choice toleave engineering during the first semester of study? These questions led to the development ofthis research project.Project RationaleBefore introducing the methodology for this study, it is essential to note the implications of thesehigh levels of attrition in engineering. As noted previously, statistical data relating to attritionand retention of students majoring in science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM) fieldscontinues to be alarming, with high-ranking administrators and

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New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Bahman Motlagh; Walter Buchanan; Alireza Rahrooh

Professor of Elec. Eng. Tech. at the Univ. of Central Florida. He receivedthe B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Eng. from Univ. of Akron, in 1979, 1986, and 1990,respectively. His research interests include digital simulation, nonlinear dynamics, control theory, systemidentification and adaptive control. He is a member of ASEE, IEEE, Eta Kappa Nu, and Tau Beta Pi.BAHMAN MOTLAGHBahman S. Motlagh is an Associate Professor of Eng. Technology at the University of Central Florida. Hereceived his B.S. from Istanbul Academy of Sciences, M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Engineeringfrom the University of Central Florida, in 1993 and 1997, respectively. He is a member ASEE, IEEE. Hehas published numerous papers on various electrical engineering

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New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering I

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Xianfgu Zong; Marcia Fischer; Malgorzata Chranowska-Jeske; James Morris; Fu Li; Cynthia Brown; Agnes Hoffman

Remote Delivery of ECE/CS Degree Education in China Marcia Fischer, James E. Morris, Fu Li, Cynthia Brown, Malgorzata Chrzanowska-Jeske, Agnes Hoffman, Xiangfu Zong Portland State University/International Institute for Information Science and TechnologyAbstractThe Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science at Portland State University(PSU) has begun to deliver undergraduate ECE and CS courses to students in Shanghai,China at the International Institute for Information, Science & Technology (IIIST) in aninnovative experiment in international collaborative education. The courses consist ofcurrent lectures recorded in PSU classrooms, delivered with

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New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering I

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Howard Evans; Shekar Viswanathan

Effective Capstone/Master’s Projects – Do’s and Don’ts Shekar Viswanathan and Howard E. Evans School of Engineering and Technology National University, 11255 North Torrey Pines, La Jolla, California 92037, U.S.A.Abstract Final program projects (typically ‘master’s projects’ at the graduate level and‘capstone’ at the undergraduate) are intensive experiences in critical analysis and aredesigned to broaden students’ perspectives and provide them with an opportunity tointegrate the knowledge acquired from various courses (integration of coursework) intotheir area of specialization. This paper analyzes a successful final project to present a listof Do’s and Don’ts necessary for

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Curriculum: Ideas/Concepts in Engineering Education

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Mark Henderson; Gerald Gannod; Barbara Gannod

provide observations about factors thatcontributed to the quality of the information gathered as well as the strengths and weaknesses ofthe process. In particular, we describe which types of activities led to the most valuablefeedback and which activities resulted in less useful outcomes. Finally, we discuss futuredirections including how this process can be modified for future use both at ASU and in otherprograms as well.1 IntroductionIn 2000, the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) changed itsevaluation process from assessment of curriculum content to assessment of program outcomes,primarily student outcomes, which is more difficult. This shift in the target has turned out to be ahuge adjustment for program